Spider Monkey

This pregnant spider monkey eats leaves upside down in primary rainforest. Very hard to spot and photograph because the spider monkeys tend to hide way up in the canopy when the occasional bushwalker strolls around.

Bay-headed Tanager

Top portrait of the very colorful bay-headed tanager showing its blue front, green back, deep red head and the brownish thighs.

Green Kingfisher (female)

This female green kingfisher portrait was shot only minutes after sunrise. The kingfisher returned a view times to a sawn off tree trunk before it disappeard with its early morning catch.

Black-Hooded Antshrike

Antshrikes are not known to pose for the photographer - this female did for a fraction of a second and showing its beautiful feathering - lucky me!

Spectacled Owl

This spectacled owl woke me up at 5 o'clock in the morning - well worth it! It was perched in a cecropia tree and definitively was after some late night nibbles as it totally ignored me. I had to correct the red "satanic" eyes in LR, because there was no time to get the flash out of the camera axis.

Scarlet Macaw

Colourful portrait of a rare wild living Scarlet Macaw showing the plumage's red, blue, yellow and green colours.

Scarlet Macaw in flight

Top action photo of a rare wild living Scarlet Macaw having an attalea fruit in his beak while flying back to his favorite perch and showing the entire ara macao's impressive red, blue and yellow coloured plumage.

Scarlet Macaw

This wild living Scarlet Macaw (Hellroter Ara) picks attalea palm fruits upside down with its powerfull beak. Close-up of the ara's head, neck and red plumage.

Prong-billed Barbet

The prong-billed barbet with its stout bill and ocherous head and breast belongs to a family of birds that comprises only of two species. Naturally, this one is endemic to the highlands of CR and W Panama.

Black-and-white Warbler

The black-and-white warbler in a black and white profile shot showing its typical habit of creeping on trunks. "Never give in, never" to get this very fast one in focus with a Pentax!

Wilson's Warbler (male)

The black capped Wilson's warbler is a winter resident and passage migrant common above 800m a.s.l. As all warblers, the bright yellow Wilson's warbler is constantly moving.

Yellowish Flycatcher

Ventral view of a yellowish flycatcher who is often fairly tame.

Black-bellied Hummingbird (male)

This tiny male black-bellied hummingbird grows up to eight cm only. It is regularly chased away by bigger hummingbirds and then hides in a safe place.

Purple-throated Mountain-gem (male)

Hummingbird portrait of a male purple-throated mountain-gem showing the deep purple throat and turquoise crown.

Great Crested Flycatcher

In this profile portrait you see the great crested flycatcher (Schnäppertyrann) perched on a frangipani tree with a nicely blured green-brown background.

Pale-billed Woodpecker (female)

This female pale-billed woodpecker peers out of its tree hole and shows its beautiful red head and the pale bill.

Charming Hummingbird

This species is endemic to the Southern Pacific lowlands and Panama.

Charming Hummingbird

One of the photo's I dreamed of being able to take. Flash, long lens, no tripod.

White-throated Mountain Gem

This hummingbird is endemic to CR and W Panama. Males defend their territory very aggressively.

Magnificent Hummingbird

Males of this quite large species have a purple crown and a turqoise-blue throat.

Montezuma Oropendola

This large bird is polygynous. Dominant alpha males perform most copulations at a colony.

Brown Jay

Juvenile hiding in the green

Great Curassow

Not captive, but also not very wild, was this large bird accustomed to the presence of humans

Tiny, but highly venomous

Juvenile Eyelash Palm Pitviper resting on leaf.